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Software

Package {ggbrookings} - Author, maintainer.

Programming skills

R

tidyverse

Git

GitHub

Markdown

HTML

CSS

Languages

English: Native

Spanish: Native

Portuguese: Proficient

Main

Manuel Alcalá Kovalski

Education

B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)

University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019

Philadelphia, PA

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  • Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Computer Programming, Econometrics, Microeconometrics, Microeconomic theory (Graduate), and Macro-modeling.

Work Experience

Senior Research Assistant

The Brookings Institution
Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy

Washington, D.C.

Current - 2019

  • Authored the official Brookings branded R visualization package
  • Led data science trainings on R package development, data manipulation in R using the Tidyverse, and version control using Git and GitHub for 65+ staff across the entire organization
  • Developed an R Shiny app which scrapes over 20 economic research websites to centralize information on new working papers. This app is deployed weekly to sort and identify content for the Hutchins roundup blog since 2019.
  • Creates data visualizations used in blog posts, conferences, and internal reports to communicate insights from macroeconomic data in an accessible manner.
  • Produce and deliver parametrized reports to evaluate our GDP forecast during monthly Fiscal Impact Measure updates.
  • Automates code testing, linting, and running using continuous integration with GitHub actions.

Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar

Leonard Davis Institute

University of Pennsylvania

2018

  • Independently analyzed data on 322,264 hospital admissions admissions using logistic regression in Stata

Undergraduate Researcher

Health Management and Policy Department

University of Miami

2018 - 2017

  • Conducted data analysis on projects related to health services research using R, Stata, and Python

Publications